Every year, the New York State Forest Rangers have to rescue people who use the outdoors for recreation. Some get injured and need evacuation, some get lost and need search and rescue, but all put a burden on our park services resources. Any efforts to educate people on how to be safer and more responsible in nature will go a long way towards helping alleviate this burden but the Department of Environmental Conservation does not have the resources to market to everyone. In our analysis, we will try to identify groups that are at a greater risk of needing evacuation so we can make a recommendation on where best to allocate resources on awareness. We decided to focus on the Adirondack Park because of the region’s high traffic and ability to attract inexperienced visitors. &&&&The variables of interest are the amount of rangers involved, amount of people being rescued, age and gender of rescued, and the type of activity that caused the accident. We will be analyzing the rescues happening in the Adirondack Park to try to find groups of people who are at a greater risk of needing rescue and would therefore benefit more from targeted awareness campaigns.
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This is observational data originally found on Data World (https://data.world/) from the NYSDEC on forest ranger incident reports. In order to help understand the data it would be helpful for the reader to have previous knowledge about recreational activities in New York State forests and the risks involved with those activities.
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To help us visualize the location found data we can look at all the incidents plotted on a map of New York State as shown in section 3.1. From visual inspection, we can see the highest density of rescues occur in the Adirondacks. We can verify this by using the table function to summarize the results.
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